A staff of the family planning organization of the philippines shows some ot the contraceptives they give to residents in some selected communities . INQUIRER FILE PHOTO

MANILA, Philippines – The Senate and the House of the Representatives on Wednesday night ratified the final version of the Reproductive Health bill that would provide government funding for contraceptives and sexuality classes in schools.

At the House, lawmakers ratified the measure via ayes and nays voting, and Speaker Belmonte declared the ayes have it.

To become a law, the reconciled report on the measure will be sent to President Benigno Aquino III for signing.

At the Senate, 11 senators adopted the bicameral committee report on the bill while five senators reiterated their vote against it.

It was Senator Pia Cayetano, head of the Senate committee on health, and on women, who reported on the floor the outcome of the bicameral meeting held hours before the ratification.

Cayetano said the following salient features of the measure were approved in the bicam:

Any person will be allowed access to Reproductive Health and family planning services except minors unless they have the consent of their parents or guardians. A minor, who is already a parent or one has had a miscarriage, would also be allowed access to RH services.

All public healthcare facilities are mandated under the measure to provide family planning method “without prejudice to private healthcare facilities extending the same…”

The measure also required mandatory RH education to adolescents aged between 10 and 19 in all public school. The Department of Education will formulate the curriculum for public schools also “without prejudice to private schools adopting the same.”

Local government units, under the measure, will be “encouraged to comply with their mandate to provide healthcare service…with funding and other kind of assistance from the national government.

The measure also made it clear that it would not promote nor condone abortion.

“And finally for the curiosity and the pleasure of the body, the term ‘safe and satisfying sex was retained and this was further improved and it’s now read ‘responsible, consensual, safe and satisfying sex,” Cayetano said.

No senator objected when she moved to adopt the bicameral report.

But Enrile stood up and reiterated his no vote on the bill.

“Consistent with my remarks when I voted on third reading on this bill, I will register a negative vote on the committee report,” he said.

Sotto, Estrada and Pimentel also stood up and reiterated their “no vote” on the measure.

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http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EXFI4EUGM23PQ4FMQKLVH36OXI Jose

Boom.

P-Noy’s definitely going to sign this, so that’s history made.

Freaking fantastic. Thank God.

boldyak

this is a man made law, and i am sure you don’t have to thank GOD for this…this law is all about worldly convenience for a person with a very low morality…GOD wants people to be more on spritual “things” and live with good moral standards…

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EXFI4EUGM23PQ4FMQKLVH36OXI Jose

I thank God because I believe that in this case, good and reason has won over ignorance and stupidity.

Feel free to disagree, with the knowledge that your opinion doesn’t particularly matter.

muddygoose

Whose moral standards? Yours? So you speak for god now? Hmmm.

boytz

Isn’t this “god’s will” too? I say god willed this bill to pass as he willed the bishops/priests to lose!!

http://profile.yahoo.com/BUBQZZX75RSSBO7GUEVTI4NAIU Onel

Moral standards are subjective. There is no hard and fast rule to determine what is moral to what’s not.

And the RH Bill is not immoral. It’s your antiquated views which makes it, to your point of view, immoral. This is God’s will.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2SAS5EA3XCKC7Z3D7ODUHO2KFE lone ranger

Your religion is man-made as well just like any other religion in this world, Nothing against you just want to get your facts straight.

Observer_din

sabi mo “GOD wants people to be more on spritual “things” and live with good moral standards…”

eh kung sabihin mo kaya muna yan sa mga PARI at BISHITS??

quirinomayer

Finally, we are set free from the domination of Padre Damaso. Long live the congressmen and senators who voted Padre Damaso out of our lives. Thanks to their guts we are now free from religious slavery.

sanjuan683

Amen

boldyak

i am a little bit worried that you people are not for the morality of the people but you are just concern to dismantle the Catholic Church….are you instructed by your pastors to do this and have the catholics transfer to your denomination?…for a lot of 10% ikapo …. we stand by our church leaders because they have the wisdom that you people don’t have..

we are still here, and we will ever be anti-RH..this bill is all about giving contraceptives….this is not about freedom to choose, since nobody is banned from using contraceptive, contraceptives are always available in the market…this bill is just to say to poor people “stop reproduction..here is a condom use it.”…as if poor people are not allowed to reproduce…intead of giving them work, just eliminate them…this the solution of this government…

muddygoose

Even rich, highly educated people in developed countries are cutting on the number of children. If you give a poor person a decent job, and yet not give him or her the knowledge and the means to keep the size of his family reasonable, he will remain poor. I guess that is what you want.

The measure also required mandatory RH education to adolescents aged between 10 and 19 in all public school. The Department of Education will formulate the curriculum for public schools also “without prejudice to private schools adopting the same.”…this is for sure unconstitional….bwahahahaha

muddygoose

Care to explain why?

http://profile.yahoo.com/BUBQZZX75RSSBO7GUEVTI4NAIU Onel

Will you please cite the pertinent provisions of the Constitution that would render the said provision unconstitutional? Because I am ready to bash your head with my thick and heavy Constitutional Law books.

I just posted brod/sis what I thought was relevant. Di po nananakot. And it is not right to say walang naniniwala sa amin, at hindi dapat ikahiya ang pinaglalaban mong sa tingin mo ay tama. Even if the majority in the Philippines disagree. Katulad mo rin marami rin akong friends on the other side of the debate, pero ganon eh, iba-iba tayo ng pananaw eh. Di po ba?

floroy

these people here gloating because of their victory over the anti-rh are not considering the lessons drawn from experiences of countries abroad who adopted ‘rh’ policies for their population. these countries whose civilization was built on christian foundations are now suffering from negative population growth and graying demographics as a direct result of their push to control population for the sake of practicality and economic growth. they are now being pushed aside slowly by a segment of their population with a faith far less tolerating than what they once held. So sorry for these countries, so sorry for the phils. Magsaya kayo hanggat gusto niyo, pero kawawa ang mga susunod na generasyon kung magkakataon. such stupidity!

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3RMNEZCQQHXWOQRXJROQ2CORFU Homer Guo

for once, masasabi ko ito: for all that he isn’t, the president is right on this one.clap! clap!

speaksoftlylove

These bragging clueless RH pinheads do not really understand what universal consciousness is and what is in store in a very near future. Universal consciousness tells us that everything in this universe and that includes our galaxy in whatever form of matter, is living in harmony to each other. In fact, any bacteria has DNA and therefore developing and living including a virus. How much more for a fertilized egg? DNA is a divine manifestation and this is a fact proven not only by predictions of lost civilizations, prophets, the Bible, but also scientific findings. RH bill therefore aims to prevent this change or universal manifestation and that is, from creating, reforming, and ultimately purifying mankind.

Thanks to these RH proponents, you just hasten the destruction of this planet. Instead of purification, you just hasten the destruction of mankind. You will reap what you sow and the future will unleash the Wrath of Universal Consciousness. Delete this blog if you must, as soon as possible.

Quit fooling yourself and make your own research. The evidence and facts are under your nose, they are spread all over the internet. Unlike ten years ago governments and NASA have the luxury of suppressing these facts but with the advent of advanced technology and devices more particularly sonar, GPS, advance telescopes, etc they can no longer hidde the truth because independent organizations, top scientists, engineers and astrophysicists, etc have conducted their own studies and published their results to the public. Quit blogging and watching telenobelas and for once be serious. Don’t ask me for the links because it is prohibited in this forum. But just to disabuse your minds here are the facts as a result of their studies:

1. They found out evidence of Polar Shifts that occurred on earth three times already. Such evidence were unearthed from a mountain in Alaska and also in Australia where they discovered that it has occurred at exactly the same time and it was abrupt. They found out that in one receding glacier off Alaska green plants appeared which has been from for a thousand of years;

2. They discovered coral reefs in the top of the mountain in Nevada, USA and carbon dated the same to the last Polar Shift. Why would coral reef be in a mountain in Navada?

3. Latest amazing proof is the discovery of a whole sunken continent 600 feet under the Antartic Sea. It is 6,000 square miles in area and it is a frozen tropical forest. A lot of scientists from all over the globe are still there at this moment studying the Polar Shift as it will occur in the coming days;

4. Last year the Norwegian government embarked in an 18 month porogram to buy an island in the meditteranian sea, excavated a cave which they built a seed vault, and then stuffed it with three million kinds of seeds and they are now inviting other governments to deposit their seeds in this vault. Why would Norway do this if they are not aware of what is coming?

5. Russians where the first ones to discover and enhance the power of pyramids. They know that it is a conduit or channel of galactic energy. Pictures show that the Russian built huge pyramids made of PBCs all over their country and near oil wells which they found out to produce an increase of 25% productivity. They even enhanced granite slabs inside the pyramids and use these to build their jails on the theory that prisoners will change their behavior for good and it was proven. By the way, pyramids are strewn all over the globe. The latest discovery is in Bosnia where a mountain that was thought to be so for a thousand years but using advanced technology, they found out that it was a pyramid and they are now digging it. You can search for the picture;

6. What about the US, are they aware of this up coming polar shift and the purpose of the pyramids. Of course they are. They have their own study in Alaska more than ten years ago;

7. Finally, what about the Chinese, are they aware of this? Of course, they are, yon pa mahuhuli? Do you really think that the Chinese are interested in the West Philippine Sea just for oil alone? West Philippine sea is where the deepest part of earth can be found. Scientific studies prove that vortices are similar to pyramids. It is where the galactic energy enters an covers the earth like the energy that produces the magnetosphere which protects the earth.

Now, study. rather that take comfort in ridiculing or maligning other blogs.

tamumd

Oh Lord….some deranged person got out of the shrink hospital. Hahahahaha. You cannot cite sources of your b..s coz there’s no reputable source that even say anywhere close to what you just enumerated. They’re outlandish claims. Only little kids would fall for all those garbage. Even your prediction 5 days ago that the RH bill is “kaput, dead..till Kingdom come” didn’t materialize. hahahahaha. How are we suppose to believe your b..s?

http://profile.yahoo.com/NV25ZPWMBDYFXEYR3AWQ43ZS5E Hein S

“Too many people” is destroying the planet.

Just look at our Dirty rivers.

speaksoftlylove

Polar Shift is a given. It occurs every 5,200 years just like what the baktun of the Mayan calendar is saying 4,000 years ago. Every mayan “baktun” or age starts with destruction, reformation, and then purification. This is not prophecy because this occur in galactic cycles which were studied and observed by the Mayans. Ironically 12/21/12 is the start of another age that is, the age of Aquarius in our modern day astronomy. And, the energy emanates from the center of our galaxy which is a black hole. But the design of energy itself emanates from universal consciousness. Whatever you call it, whether what religion you belong, and no matter how you pray, it will happen. Why the Mayans know this 4,000 years ago when modern scientists only confirmed it more than five years ago is just mind boggling.

As to your comment that too many people is destroying the planet, I will agree as to the spiritual aspect. I hasten to add however, that the belief that global warming is caused by people’s behavior of polluting our atmosphere is baseless. The truth is, that and you can research on this (type project camelot on your browser for the proof) global warming is interplanetary. As the concerned scientist jokingly said, “there are no smoke belchers and SUVs on those planets as far as he knows but they are heating up at least four times than earth. If the rate of global warming happened to earth like those planets then there will be no living thing left.” The only reason why earth is heating up slower than the rest of the planets of the solar system is the magnetosphere – the earth’s protection, All the planets in our solar system, with no exemptions are heating up as a result of the monstrous gravitational pull of the black hole. Initially, scientists believed that it is caused by the sun’s erratic solar storms but this is debunked by the fact that Pluto is traveling away from the sun yet it is heating up four times in ten years. One thing is certain, the energy that makes these things happen comes from the black hole and is part and parcel of the milky way’s transformation. Believe it or not.

tamumd

Hahahahaha..whaow! ‘DNA is a divine manifestation and was predicted by lost civilization, prophets, the Bible? Really? What lost civilization and prophets and book in the Bible that talks about double-stranded alpha helix made up of bases and sugars? FYI not all viruses have DNA. lol Don’t be ridiculous. Your freaking ignorance and b…s is showing.

Hasten the destruction of the planet? If anything the RH bill would help slow down the destruction of our planet. Less people would be polluting our waterways. Less people would be exploiting our forest and seas. Less people means less carbon footprints. And who are you to tell people to delete what they wrote? You don’t own PDI. lol Geeez.

ruthless13

You sound like you’re from a different universe.

Your_King

The RH bill is nothing more than population control to help Aquino do even less work than he already is. At the end, if this bill does good he will take credit and if it does bad he will blame the Senate and House of Rep.

Observer_din

TAMA NA, TALO NA HIHIRIT PA… hehehehe

Your_King

At least we can both agree regarding NoyNoy’s ‘noynoying’

http://profile.yahoo.com/BUBQZZX75RSSBO7GUEVTI4NAIU Onel

You might be skipping on your anti-depression medications. Any impact the bill will have to the population will be felt within 5 to 10 years, or way after PNoy ends his term.

Your_King

So PNoy messes around now to act like he is doing something then let the 10 to 20 years later generation clean up his mess.

http://profile.yahoo.com/BUBQZZX75RSSBO7GUEVTI4NAIU Onel

Well I am pretty sure it won’t be messy since it will decrease dependency on the government. We don’t want freeloaders. And this is beyond population control. This is about having an informed choice. It’s people with mentality like yours which will keep this country in a mess.

LAMBFORGOVERNOR

Finally, the Philippines are moving into the Twenty-first Century and out of the dark ages of the church. Separation of church and State is the only way to run a government that is run by the people, for the people and not mired in superstition.

INQ_reader

Tapos ang boksing…talo na naman si Pacquiao.

ztefertilizerscam9

Talo ang mga Damaso…

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7IGQYIPU6AFTVRJ742XT2X44M4 Jef

Thank you very much RH Bill maging batas na rin,….to make the long story short Philippines babangon na rin sa wakas for almost a decades….anti RH bill shut up alam namin your intention para makakuha ng boto this coming election pero kabaliktaran you gain nothing, like the bishops nanghihikayat ng mga tao para mag against sa RH Bill but they were failed ….SHAME ON YOU….

http://twitter.com/wetwidewild wetwidewild

“Reproductive Health bill that would provide government funding for contraceptives and sexuality classes in schools.”

don’t forget to eat something before sex.
we need an eating bill.

tamumd

Bad suggestion! lol You might get indigestion coz that blood that would be needed by your gastrointestinal system digesting the food you just ate would be channeled to your reproductive organs, muscles, pulmonary and cardiovascular systems! SO..you can eat afterwards! lol

http://twitter.com/wetwidewild wetwidewild

is it part of sexuality education ?
channel your blood from brain to reproductive organ ?
that explains why Filipinos have big balls.

tamumd

NO it’s not part of sexuality education. It’s based on my knowledge of physiology. Increasing blood supply to your reproductive organs doesn’t make your balls big! Geez. What an idiot. lol

http://twitter.com/wetwidewild wetwidewild

I am 80 years old. I want to have a free sexuality education. Do I have to go back to school ?

tamumd

NO you don’t need it anymore not unless you would be cavorting with teenagers. If you stay with people your age, rest assured you would not make them pregnant.That if you can even manage to sustain an erection for more than 5 minutes. Or else I suggest you just pray your rosary instead. I think you would feel better doing that. Hahahahahaha

ruthless13

No, you’re too old and dumb.

filipinaskoh

Thanks to all the senators and the Congressmen/women who made it possible to enact and ratify the 14 year old RHbill.

Whew….finally, it’s done deal. I was worried I would never see this day ever happening. Thanks to all lawmakers of both houses who worked tirelessly to pass this important legislation. Now we can move on..and work on the FOI bill.

E Rigby

Kudos to P-Noy and to the senators and congressmen who supported the RH bill. It took a lot of courage and political will for them to stand up to the Catholic Church. This proves that it does take leadership and will to get the difficult things done. Congratulations again!

http://twitter.com/wetwidewild wetwidewild

free funding for birth control ? yes.
free sexuality 101 ? no.

the more you talk about sexuality, the more reproduction you will get.

Congratulations! the Aquino admin just created more means of corruption, now under the guise of contraceptives.

http://profile.yahoo.com/V42SN4WS2PJ425HBABWAZRVMSE Buenaventura

Congratulations to the wise, intelligent & prudent legislators who voted against the RH bill. The Filipinos are not happy (if you really mean happy) with this. For the wise, intelligent & prudent, they see the evil that this bill will inflict on our Filipino people. There is some good in the bill but because of its ill provisions, the bill should have been rejected, even in the final form. The title Reproductive Health just tells you that there is harm in it. We don’t need the RH bill to be responsible. What helps men (I include women) responsible is formation. God has indeed been blessing us but some persons have wasted some of these. In any case, may we all have a blessed Christmas & a fruitful 2013!

P. S. The bill does not promote abortion but it will promote chemical contraceptives all of which are abortifacient. We have before our very eyes a contradictory bill. What happened to the wisdom, intelligence & prudence of some men (I include women)?